The Role of the Concentration Camps in the Nazi Repression of Prostitutes, 1933-9

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Harris
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making

This article uses prostitutes as a case study in order to investigate the role of the early concentration camps as centres of detention for social deviants. In contrasting the intensification of repressive policies towards prostitutes against narratives which demonstrate the unexpectedly lax treatment of these women, it explores what the reasons behind these contradictions might have been, and what this demonstrates about the development of these institutions. It asks the following questions. How and why were prostitutes interned? Which bureaucrats were responsible for incarcerating these women and what did they view the role of the camp to be? Were such policies centrally directed or the product of local decision-making? Through asking these questions, the article explores to what extent these camps were unique as mechanisms for the repression and marginalization of prostitutes.

(Un)used and (un)usable? The role of indicators in local decision-making. A Brazilian case study

Futures ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 80-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Maiello ◽  
Ana Lucia Nogueira de Paiva Britto ◽  
Yasmim Ribeiro Mello ◽  
Paula Sousa de Oliveira Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Brazilian Case

scholarly journals Civic Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society: the role of nonprofit organizations in Canada’s four most diverse cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Farhat Faridi ◽  
Pauline O'Connor ◽  
Manveer Randhawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Visible Minorities ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Specific Interests

Newcomer engagement or participation in the nonprofit sector has been shown to be an important pillar for upholding democracy, linked to voting behaviour and political participation; the creation of social capital; and enhancement of newcomer involvement in local decision making. This paper presents results of a study that focuses on two ways in which immigrant minorities have their interests represented in community decision-making: the first through the formation of ethno-specific voluntary organizations that represent their specific interests; the second via participation as leaders, board members and volunteers in ‘mainstream’ nonprofit and public organizations. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation

scholarly journals Homogeneous Groups of Actors in an AHP-Local Decision Making Context: A Bayesian Analysis

Mathematics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Altuzarra ◽  
Pilar Gargallo ◽  
José María Moreno-Jiménez ◽  
Manuel Salvador
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Geometric Mean ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Decision Tools ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making

The two procedures traditionally followed for group decision making with the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) are the Aggregation of Individual Judgments (AIJ) and the Aggregation of Individual Priorities (AIP). In both cases, the geometric mean is used to synthesise judgments and individual priorities into a collective position. Unfortunately, positional measures (means) are only representative if dispersion is reduced. It is therefore necessary to develop decision tools that allow: (i) the identification of groups of actors that present homogeneous and differentiated behaviours; and, (ii) the aggregation of the priorities of the near groups to reach collective positions with the greatest possible consensus. Following a Bayesian approach to AHP in a local context (a single criterion), this work proposes a methodology to solve these problems when the number of actors is not high. The method is based on Bayesian comparison and selection of model tools which identify the number and composition of the groups as well as their priorities. This information can be very useful to identify agreement paths among the decision makers that can culminate in a more representative decision-making process. The proposal is illustrated by a real-life case study.

scholarly journals Civic perceptions: housing and local decision-making in English cities in the 1920s

Urban History ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Civic Community ◽  
Local Decision Making

The adoption of non-traditional housing by local authorities is customarily explained in terms of economic factor shortages or a nationally determined policy discourse. This underestimates the significance of distinctly local understandings of civic responsibility. Based on Leicester and Nottingham, this article argues that those influences frequently used to predict outcomes – like party political allegiance – mattered less in decision-making than a city's intrinsic view of itself. Such perceptions were grounded in subtle constructions of civic community, perceived need and political reinterpretation. Particularly important was the role of the local press. Even cities with similar problems, therefore, could be represented, and subsequently see themselves, in very dissimilar terms and act accordingly.

scholarly journals Role of Afghan Women in War against British Ahmad Wali Alemi,

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 09-18
Author(s):  
Ahmad Wali Alemi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
Single Row ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Tribal Society ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Women In War

The presence of Afghan women in Afghan society in major national and local decision-making is faded and often marginalized. But they have a key role in the production and processing of resources that are unfortunately deprived of ownership. On the contrary, in issues such as conflict, Afghan women are present on the battlefields and stand on the train with their men in a single row, fighting with their enemies and defending their country. With the end of the war, their role does not end, but they are also involved in more serious decisions related to the war.One good example of this can be remembered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that Afghan women have played a key role in the solution of local conflicts in Afghan tribal society and, through the Jirga and the Soviets, have made peace with the warring factions and ultimately. Ends of strife, war, and hostility have become essential. Therefore, in this article, citing the archives and historical sources, efforts have been made to express the role of Afghan women in War against the British and to investigate their activities.

scholarly journals Civic Participation of Visible Minorities in Canadian Society: the role of nonprofit organizations in Canada’s four most diverse cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Farhat Faridi ◽  
Pauline O'Connor ◽  
Manveer Randhawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Visible Minorities ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Specific Interests

Newcomer engagement or participation in the nonprofit sector has been shown to be an important pillar for upholding democracy, linked to voting behaviour and political participation; the creation of social capital; and enhancement of newcomer involvement in local decision making. This paper presents results of a study that focuses on two ways in which immigrant minorities have their interests represented in community decision-making: the first through the formation of ethno-specific voluntary organizations that represent their specific interests; the second via participation as leaders, board members and volunteers in ‘mainstream’ nonprofit and public organizations. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation

Law and localism: the case of multiple occupancy housing

Legal Studies ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Layard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Effect ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Regressive Effects ◽  
Political Logic

This paper investigates how planning regulation constructs the local, encapsulating a locality and prioritising local decision making over regional and national scales. It draws on a case study of the regulation of multiple occupation to make three interrelated points. First, the analysis emphasises the plurality of ‘locals’ and the interrelationships between them. Secondly, the paper explains how the juridification of the local is required to make a locality legally visible. This operationalisation and construction of the local (legally, spatially and socially) must take place before the political logic of localism, the prioritisation of local decision making over other scales of governance, can take legal effect. Thirdly, the paper explains how, once the ‘local’ is legally constructed and can make decisions, this prioritisation of apparently neutral local expertise and knowledge can act to enclose the spatial and social with sometimes powerful exclusionary and regressive effects.

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